Morgan Consulting are partnering with a market leading organisation seeking a Product Information & PIM Governance Lead to join their Commercial function. This is an opportunity to take ownership of Product Information strategy, governance, and data quality while helping shape the future state of a growing enterprise capability.
This role will suit someone who enjoys building structure, influencing senior stakeholders, and creating scalable processes that improve data quality and drive better customer and business outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to define standards, lead a team, and establish a Product Information capability that supports commercial growth, digital transformation, and operational excellence.
About the Role
The Product Information & PIM Governance Lead is responsible for establishing, governing, and continuously improving the organisation's Product Information capability.
Owning both Product Information strategy and PIM governance, you will ensure product data is accurate, complete, consistent, and trusted across all business channels. Working closely with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Technology, Supply Chain, and Quality teams, you will drive data standards, governance frameworks, and operational excellence while leading a team of Product Information specialists.
This is a unique opportunity to scale and mature an enterprise wide Product Information function and become the key authority on product data governance.
What You Will Do Product Information Leadership
- Own the end-to-end Product Information capability, including PIM and alignment with supporting systems.
- Define and maintain Product Information principles, standards, and governance frameworks.
- Act as the senior escalation point for Product Information decisions and prioritisation.
- Partner with stakeholders across Product, Marketing, Supply Chain, Technology, Quality, and Commercial functions to ensure strong business outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across product data management processes.
- Establish and maintain governance frameworks, policies, and standards for product information.
- Define data standards, classifications, attributes, validation rules, and publishing processes.
- Ensure clear ownership and accountability for product data across the organisation.
- Monitor product data quality, completeness, and consistency.
- Lead remediation initiatives where data quality standards are not achieved.
- Champion PIM as the trusted source of truth across the business.
- Define and optimise the Product Information operating model.
- Clarify ownership and responsibilities throughout the product data lifecycle.
- Establish scalable workflows for data creation, enrichment, approval, maintenance, and governance.
- Balance governance requirements with commercial agility and speed to market.
- Provide guidance and support to Product and Commercial teams on best-practice product information management.
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and service providers.
- Set priorities for system enhancements, workflows, data models, and platform improvements.
- Align Product Information initiatives with broader business and category objectives.
- Partner with Technology teams and external vendors to support current and future platform requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation across Product Information capabilities.
- Support digital transformation initiatives through strong governance and quality data foundations.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Product Information professionals.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support capability uplift through coaching, training, and professional development opportunities.
- Conduct regular performance, wellbeing, and development discussions.
- Proven experience in Product Information Management (PIM), Product Data Governance, Master Data Management, or a related discipline.
- Strong experience developing and implementing data governance frameworks and standards.
- Experience working with PIM platforms and complex product data environments.
- Demonstrated success improving data quality, governance, and operational processes.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities across multiple business functions.
- Experience leading teams and driving organisational change.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
- Understanding of digital transformation programs and enterprise data management practices.
- Commercial acumen with the ability to balance governance and business outcomes.
- Tertiary qualification in Business, Information Technology, Marketing, Communications, or a related discipline.
- Experience in large scale or enterprise environments managing complex product data ecosystems.
- Experience working with catalogue management, eCommerce, digital channels, or data governance programs will be highly regarded.
- Opportunity to define and scale the future-state Product Information capability.
- Lead a critical business function with enterprise-wide visibility and influence.
- Shape governance, processes, and standards from the ground up.
- Manage and develop a growing team.
- Significant stakeholder engagement across Commercial, Product, Technology, and Supply Chain teams.
- Strong growth and career development opportunities.
- Collaborative culture with the autonomy to make a real impact.
If you are a Product Information, PIM, Master Data or Data Governance leader who thrives on creating structure, driving quality, and influencing change across a large organisation, we would love to hear from you. Apply now or reach out for a confidential conversation.
